Seen At Classic Gaming Expo 2012

Every year the Classic Gaming Expo sets up shop in Las Vegas. The conference just closed its doors for another year, and its exhibitors are busy packing up their wares, but you can check out some of the expo's highlights in our media gallery.

No fancy greeting at the CGE

A row of classic arcade games line the back wall of the hall. They were all free to play

There are a lot of games for sale at CGE. Here's one about history. It's for adults, probably because children find history boring

The marketing team behind this game may not have know what game they were trying to sell

I grew up in the 80's...well, I was born in '86, so I just guess I just BARELY actually remember the 80's. The early 90's seems very 80's-ish though. My point is, the earliest I will acknowledge video games, with few exceptions, is the NES era. This stuff seems more like toys than games that could possibly entertain you for a prolonged period of time...like those Tiger handhelds.

Man, games have come a long way. They just keep getting better and better...until they peaked, and now they're getting somewhat worse, thanks to the saturation of the uncreative, uber linear, and extremely expensive-to-produce shooters on the market.

Some of this stuff I remember seeing as a kid...I was born in 1980 so I've seen a few of the products. It's pretty interesting to see how far gaming has come and how silly some of the older products were. I particularly found the speedboard amusing.

What a great article. I loved the pics. They take me back. I still have so much of the stuff yu had shown. But a lot of it I neved had. Thanks for the memories. I did not see a Vectrex system though. Ganers eith loved of hater that in the early 80's.